Canoa Ranch Golf Club

Very disappointed. Overpriced, under staffed, inattentive. No communication with the outside word ***no service** on cell phone. No internet although was promised it was good connection (I am a business traveller). Breakfast was 1 waitress to 30+ guests — front desk unhelpful (internet problems — «well my internet is working fine it’s just you …» For a ***$$$*** this was a real let down — would have expected this quality at a Motel 6. Where is management? Absentee — obviously no pride of ownership — a real disappointment. We won’t be back and save yourself the trouble and don’t bother coming yourself.

Just recently played Canoa Ranch, had heard a few not so good things about the course. Much better course then some others I have played in GV. We will definitely be back again.

I wasn’t here to play golf but to eat a light lunch with some friends. Grill On The Greens is the name of the clubs restaurant. We were seated promptly, asked for our drink orders and shortly after our lunch selections were taken. I ordered the Caprese salad which consists of tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and grilled eggplant topped with fresh basil. Thin slices of tomatoes, and cold old eggplant slices layered between mozzarella slices. When a eggplant gets old the creamy white inside turns gray and bitter, I know, I make my own eggplant dishes. The kitchen must have been out of fresh basil because her substitute was broken up pieces of spinach and I know the difference, I grow my own basil, but the cook thought he pull a fast one. I even questioned the waitstaff and she assured me that the head chef used basil, sure he would say that, he probably also lies when he play golf too. I’ll return again for drinks and appetizers because the place is nice but don’t try to fool this old nine iron.

We have played this course several times over the past several years when visiting my folks in GV. Canoa used to be a very first class course that has seen decline in the conditions and staff from its early days. The people at the desk are very rude and unwelcoming, especially the woman. I forgot her name. A smile wouldn’t hurt please. The past few times we just about asked for our money back. The course has beautiful views and is a great layout but is not kept up well. Hopefully more prosperous times will come back to GV and with increased business Canoa can put some money back into the course. The dining room has great burgers!!! The gullies between the holes are littered with trash from the illegal immigrants making their way through. I know that is hard to control but a bit of a better effort would go a long way. And for goodness sake please get some club cleaners on the course and get rid of the buckets of dirty standing water. They are dirty and unsafe to have around as they attract mosquitoes. I hope the best for Canoa because we used to LOVE it.

Not much of a golfer but some buddies of mine decided to to try something new. Played the full 18 and the course wasn’t in the best condition because of the time of year, but we still had a great time. I love the scenic views on the back 9 as you are literally hitting towards Madera Canyon, oh and we also received a free burger with our round of golf ($ 23), so can’t complain. Take advantage of golfs down time!

This course is well designed and from the azule tees very challenging. The views are nice as is the absence of housing.
However the course is in dreadful shape. The fairways have patchy grass, the greens rock hard and some have a scarred surface, and the traps have little sand.
We paid $ 34 and a fair price.
One wonders who the green keeper is and what his budget is.

I participated in a match play tournament against the crosstown league in Tucson this past weekend. Saturday was a practice round and Sunday was a matchplay shotgun tournament.
I’m a novice, high handicapper, and I found the course challenging. The fairways are pretty wide and straight. No overwhelming water hazards that you need to hit over. Some bunkers are located strategically in front of the hole to psych out novices. The good players probably didn’t have any problems, but I lost a whole box of balls on Saturday and another box on Sunday because the roughs are high and swallow up the balls. If you’re unlucky enough to miss the fairway altogether and hit it out into the «junk”/desert, the landscaping is overgrown and since it’s currently rattler season, it’s not advisable to go looking for the errant ball. Hence, if you’re kinda lousy, come with a lot of balls. Also the 18^th hole was very difficult for me. There’s two desert breaks in the fairway. Since I don’t have any distance or accuracy, trying to strategically hit lobs close to the end of one fairway and then lob it over the break onto the next part of the fairway that’s uphill was a lost cause for me. As you can image this is where I lost more than 1 sleeve of balls just to get anywhere near the green. One of the nice features of the course was the GPS enabled carts!
I think the course is a little understaffed due to the bad economy and coordination among the staff could be better. My practice round on Saturday was in the afternoon. The cart lady never made an appearance, and there aren’t any water stations on the course. I could have used some drinks and a cup of ice. On Sunday, there were two tournaments that were going to take place around the same time. The course obviously didn’t have enough fairway markers for two tournaments. They favored the local men’s tournament over our ladies’ tournament and so when we got to some closest-​to-​the-​hole/​longest-​drive holes, there weren’t any markers there and so we had to improvise. Some of my teammates were having breakfast before the tournament. The poor server wasn’t given a till, and so if you bought anything you needed to have exact change if you paid with cash. Our tee time was 8:15AM, and yet the landscaping crew showed up and started to mow the 18^th hole around 9:00AM as we were playing! Didn’t staffers tell the landscaping crew that there was a shotgun tournament already going on? Lastly, what’s up with not having any numbering on the holes? (I guess I could always consult the GPS to tell me which hole I was playing…)

I would actually give 3 ½ star if I could. Hotel is nice. Golf Course is nice but not exceptional. Conditions were pretty good. Greens were very well kept. Private course like conditions. The only thing was the resort and development around the resort makes the views and such not that great. I want to feel like I’m out on a golf course and not a golf course put in around a housing track. The houses don’t really come into play but just some of the holes made me feel like I in a housing track not a golf course…

They sent me and my father out on the back nine first. This turned out to be a good move on the part of the club house. If I’d seen the course in the other order I may have scored it differently. We were impressed by the mountain views, but distressed by the lack of respect shown to the course by those who came before us. The greens were literally pockmarked by unrepaired ball marks, the fairways neglected, and the rough was littered with cigarette butts and empty soda cans. The holes themselves were nicely challenging, with a lot of rolling hills, but I just couldn’t shake the feeling that this was a course still under construction.
Then came the front nine. Wow. They had a couple of named holes out back, but the front ones really deserve to be their signatures. The second and ninth specifically are bears. The front is what golf can be. The back is what it (unfortunately) often is. I’d recommend this course, but not over San Ignacio and Canoa Hills just up the street (I haven’t played them recently enough to review them, but from memory they’d merit 4 and 5 stars, respectively).